History of the Colony of Queensland from 1770 to the Close of the Year 1881, in Two Volumes, כרך 1W. Thorne, 1882 - 256 עמודים |
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aboriginal acres afterwards appointed arrived Australia bank blacks Brisbane called Captain chapel Church Clarence coast Colonial Office commenced committee connected convict Courier Creek Cunningham Darling Downs despatch direction discovery Dividing Range Earl Grey election electoral emigrants England establishment expedition exploration export favour Fitzroy Flinders followed formed gold Governor Gulf of Carpentaria Home Government immigrants interest interior Ipswich Island journey labour Lang's late Legislative Council Leichhardt meeting ment miles Moreton Bay murder named narrative natives necessary northern districts occupied opinion party pastoral petition population Port Curtis Port Essington Port Jackson portion present proposed Queensland question reached received residents result river seems sent separation settlement settlers sheep Sir George Gipps Sir William Denison South Wales Government squatters Stanley Boroughs station supposed Sydney tion town vessel Victoria vote voyage Wide Bay
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עמוד 20 - ... the grass and herbage generally exhibiting in the depth of winter, an. extreme luxuriance of growth. From these central grounds rise downs of a rich, black, and dry soil, and very ample surface ; and as they furnish abundance of grass, and are conveniently watered, yet perfectly beyond the reach of those floods which take place on the flats in a season of rain, they constitute a valuable and sound sheep pasture.
עמוד 75 - ... copper, lead, or other minerals, or for any other purpose of public defence, safety, utility, convenience, or enjoyment, or for otherwise facilitating the improvement and settlement of the Colony...
עמוד 150 - ... conferring on the original Patentees and their descendants inheritors of their titles a power to elect a certain number of their order to form In conjunction with the original Patentees then living, the Upper House of Parliament, would be a great improvement upon any form of Legislative Council hitherto tried or recommended In any British colony. They conceive that an Upper House framed on this principle, whilst It would be free from the objections which have been urged against the House of Lords,...
עמוד 19 - I had well nigh sacrificed the weaker of my horses — to observe, from a ridge which lay in our course, that they were within a day's march of open downs of unknown extent, which stretched, easterly, to the base of a lofty range of mountains, distant, apparently, about twenty-five miles. On the 6th and following day, we travelled throughout the whole extent of these plains, to the foot of the mountains extending along their eastern side, and the following is the substance of my observations on their...
עמוד 37 - ... by a succession of tapering spires rising from the many Christian hamlets that must ultimately stud this country, and pointing through the calm depths of the intensely blue and gloriously bright skies of Tropical Australia, to a still calmer and brighter and more glorious region beyond, to which all our sublimest aspirations tend, and where all our holiest desires may be satisfied.
עמוד 74 - ... for the use or benefit of the aboriginal inhabitants of the country, or for purposes of military defence, or as the sites of places of public worship, schools, or other public buildings, or as places for the interment of the dead, or places for the recreation and amusement of the inhabitants of any town or village, or as the sites of public quays or landing places on the sea-coast...
עמוד 37 - I could do was to give one long lingering look to the southward before I returned. In that direction, however, no curling smoke denoted the presence of the savage ; all was lonely and still; and yet even in these deserted plains, equally wanting in the redundance of animal, as in the luxuriance of vegetable life, I could discover the rudiments of future prosperity, and ample justification of the name which I had bestowed upon them.
עמוד 52 - Australia, and is an object, the accomplishment of which is also likely to be attended with great advantages to the commercial and other interests of this colony, by opening a direct line of communication with the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, with India, and other parts of Asia.
עמוד 19 - The lower grounds thus permanently watered, present flats which furnish an almost inexhaustible range of cattle pasture at all seasons of the year — the grass and herbage generally exhibiting in the depth of winter, an.
עמוד 150 - ... (leaving it to the option of the Crown to annex to the title of the first patentee a seat for life in such house, and conferring on the original patentees and their descendants, inheritors of their titles, a power to elect a certain number of their order, to form, in conjunction with the original patentees then living, the upper house of parliament) would be a great improvement upon any form of Legislative Council hitherto tried or recommended in any British colony.